HL Education Area of Impact Study

Each student should research for the First 10 Minutes and present thier findings

Interactive Whiteboard
Owais
a) What is it and how does it work?

Arif
b) What potential does the interactive whiteboard have on changing your lesson?

Katalina
c) Discuss the impact on learning from the introduction of IWB using AKAM as an example


All Students

d) Try out the ActivStudio software to see it’s full functions and visit www.promethean.com to look at all of it’s features. And read the paper presented below. Beyond IT in Educational Transformation – Gwen Ooi, Elink Pte LtdPresents a paper, which you can read about the interactive whiteboard


Mobile Phones and PDA
Pilot projects have been run in the UK where a class of students were given a PDA and could use it in class whenever they wished for whatever purpose. Some companies are embracing text messaging as a way of reaching out to students. See the article BBC News Literary classics become txt messages. Also text messaging is being used in schools to notify parents if students are not in school or if there is an emergency message e.g. school closure. With this push and pull technology. Schools can pay to have messages pushed to parents and parents can pull student information e.g. test results or the most recent report grades. While other schools are banning the use of mobile phones because of the distraction they are in class, the problems of theft.

Salsabila
a) Research about the use of Mobile phones / PDAs in education.

Alex
b) What are the benefits that have been found from using them?

Jamsheed
c) What are the reasons that there is not wide spread use of PDAs and mobile phones in education.

Owais

d) How has text messaging impacted on the use of student’s English grammar.

All Students
e) How are mobile phones being used to improve the communication between parent and school

All students
f) Should a school embrace or ban mobile phones in school….discuss.